at collocations with give. Unusually today I have 14 in the list. So there's quite a lot of them,
so I'm going to go through them, and then I'm going to give you a situation when you
this all the time, when somebody wants us to do something, or somebody has made a suggestion,
or they're asking you a particular situation. So you don't want to give an immediate answer.
Or perhaps you're trying to find a way out of it. So you might just simply say, I'll give it some
thought, and I will get back to you. So somebody's suggestion, some change to some procedure in the
office, Okay, leave it with me, I'll give it some thought. And I'll get back to you.
Or the kids want to do something for the holidays, they don't want to go to the normal place you go.
And you say, well, oh, look, we like going there. And it's, it's easy just to pack up and go,
we know what we're doing. But I hear you, I'll give it some thought. And I'll get back to you.
Okay, so when you give it some thought, you're going to dwell on it for a little while,
and then consider and give it your considered opinion. Okay.
To give an example. Well, every time we make a presentation,
every time we're meeting with a customer, every time we're trying to sell something,
we always give an example, because giving examples is the easiest way for people to understand.
It works for me, when I'm giving the lessons I always give examples, and these examples
will show you how to use it. So when you give an example, then you understand it a lot, lot better.
So let me give you an example. Meaning let me give you a situation. And you can see how it works.
Give somebody a call. Well, you know, we always give somebody a call. We are always
calling people on a mobile phone. But that would be a time I'll give you a phone call.
But now it's just give you a call because we'll just press a button on our mobile phones,
and we'll ring our partners to tell them we're going to be late home.
Will ring our kids to see how they're getting on in college.
We will ring our parents to see is there anything that they need? So to give somebody a call.
Or indeed you come back from your lunch, and there's a note, there's an email from somebody
who took a call when you were at lunch and say, Could you give Mike a call? Could you
give Tommy a call? Okay, so you reminding you to ring them because they were looking for you.
To give a hand or give somebody a hand. So would you like me to give you a hand? As
a question, meaning would you like me to help you?
Can I give you a hand? When you offer to help somebody to do something.
Or perhaps you'd go and give your grandma a hand to bring
in the dishes and we can set the table for dinner?
Or go out in the garden and give you a grandad a hand to dig up the vegetables, okay.
So to give a hand means to help somebody to do something.
Give a speech. Well, how many of you have had to give a speech? There are
many situations when you will have to give a speech during your lifetime.
Perhaps when you get married, you'll have to give a speech.
Perhaps when it's your children's 21st party, you have to give a speech.
Or some special birthday when you are obliged or required or people rely on you to give a speech.
Perhaps in the office, when you're making a presentation
to somebody retiring, you'd have to give a speech.
I remember when I had to make my first speech, and I had to give a speech. Wow,
it was a disaster. But to give a speech means to make a speech to stand up and
present yourself to other people or to thank people for coming to open a particular event.
All examples of when you have to give a speech to stand up and say a few words.
Give notice. Well, when we give notice, we often complete it with the expression
"to give notice to quit" means to hand in your notice at work. Okay.
I'm going to tell the boss tomorrow, I'm going to hand in my notice, I'm going to give my notice to
quit. So you have to work two weeks or three weeks or two months or three months. It's part
of your contract if you want to leave, but you have to officially inform him. So you give him
notice that you intend leaving the job on the first of October or the first of November, okay?
You can also give notice to quit, where you are renting an apartment. So you write and inform the
landlord or the agent for the landlord that you will be no longer interested in renting
the apartment from the first of December because you move into another city or you found another
apartment so you give notice to quit. Okay, so to give notice to quit something to end something.
To give an opinion. Oh well, people like giving opinions. I always like giving opinions,
but not a lot of people like listening to opinions. Okay,
so when you want to give an opinion, you want to tell somebody what you think?
Well, if you want my opinion.... Well, if you want to listen to me for a minute,
I'll tell you what I think that's all about giving an opinion.
So some people are very free and easy with their opinions. They
give opinions on everything, even when people don't want them. Look,
I don't want your opinion. Well, I'm going to give you my opinion anyway.
Okay, parents love to give opinions. Children don't like to listen to them. To give an opinion.
Give an answer. Well, the teacher is walking around the class and says, Okay,
who knows the answer to question number five? And she looks around to see which
hand is going to shut up first so that she can ask them so to give an answer.
So when you give an answer, make sure it's clear
and it can be clearly understood. Or if you're doing something online,
you have to give an an an answer within 20 seconds. Otherwise, you have to reboot. Yeah,
so to give an answer means to answer a question that somebody has asked or proposed or suggested.
So I'll give an answer tomorrow. I'll give you
an answer later. So you might delay when you give the particular answer.
Give evidence. We give evidence in a trial. So you might be called as a witness, you were wit...
You witnessed a motor accident where somebody on a bicycle was knocked out off the bike by
a car. And you're standing there and you saw everything happening very clearly. Unfortunately,
the man was a little bit injured. The police came, but they were looking for witnesses,
and you have to go forward. So in the trial is there for damages, you have to go forward,
and then you step into the witness box. And you give evidence you tell the judge exactly what
happened. You answered the questions from the lawyer as to what took place to give evidence.
You can also give evidence in writing. But as I was describing,
it's given verbal evidence. So to give evidence in writing your right to report, you sign it,
or you give verbal evidence where you sit in a courtroom in a witness box,
and you give the evidence to the judge or whoever's listening. Okay, so to give evidence.
To give priority. Here we can say to give priority to something.
Okay, so you get the list of jobs that you have to do for the week. But the boss asks
you to give priority to those orders that came in first. So there were orders that came in two
or three weeks ago. You need to give priority to those means do those first to give priority to.
Or you see an advertisement and it's talking about
apartments available for children going to third level education to university.
And the notice might say at the bottom priority will be given to those who are living outside
the city. So in other words, it means that those students who are travelling from other
cities come into your particular city for their third level education, priority will be given
to them so that they can get apartments because they're living many, many kilometres from home.
So to give priority to something means to
treat it first, above every other option that is there, okay.
Or, if you go to a hospital, there might be a notice on the wall priority will be given to
emergency cases. So somebody's really seriously ill. So if you don't have a serious illness, and
it's only a cut finger then perhaps you should go to your GP, your general practitioner, your family
doctor, not to take up time in the hospital. So to give priority to something. Treated first.
Give information. Well, we always give information.
We give information when we send emails.
We give information when we prepare a website.
We give information when we make a presentation to customers,
or staff or friends. Always giving information passing on what we know,
to other people. Let me give you some information about that.
Information leaflets are a great way of giving information. If you go to a new city
for a holiday, you're staying in a hotel, you'll probably find somewhere in the reception area,
a little stand that has all sorts of leaflets that will give information about local sites
that you can visit things that you can see restaurants that you can go to coffee shops
that have been recommended activities that you and the kids can do. So to give information.
Give a description. Well, if we go back to the situation where you were witness to the car
accident, where the car knocked the man off the bicycle, then when the policeman comes,
and he's looking for information, he wants you to give a description of exactly what you saw. Okay?
Or, indeed, if you witnessed a robbery and somebody ran away from the scene of the robbery,
the policeman might ask you to give a description. Meaning what did the person looked like? What was
the height? What were they wearing? Was it a male or female? Did they have long hair,
short hair? Glasses? You know, colour clothes... So in which direction did they go?
So you give a description, full details of exactly what you saw as much detail as possible,
because that will then enable the policeman to get a better picture in his mind of exactly
who they're looking for, and where they might find. Okay, so to give a description.
Give credit, and there's an expression to give credit where credit is due. Okay,
so when we give credit to somebody, it means we thank them for a job well done.
Well, I must give credit to all of you, who worked so hard and getting
this launch ready. And it's been very, very successful. So well done.
So to give credit where credit is due.
To give credit to the people in the back office who worked so hard, during the pandemic,
to keep everything on the road, everybody informed as to what was to happen, yeah.
To give credit to the IT staff who got the system up and running in time,
so that when we came in on a Monday morning, everything was ready to rock and roll.
To give credit where credit is due to thank people for and to appreciate what they have done.
And then finally, to give a performance. Well, if you go to the theatre, or perhaps you go to some
musical event, maybe it's the last performance that this actor or singer is going to give.
And you could say, Oh, they gave a performance of their life,
they gave the performance of their career, really nothing as good as this. I've seen
them many, many times I've seen them perform. So often I watched videos,
this was really the best they give a performance second to none. Okay, so a real performance.
The manager of the football team might tell the team to go out and give the spectators a
performance that they will be proud of. Don't let them down. This is a great opportunity.
You got to go out there and you've got to really really be seen to be involved and
interested. So go out there and give them a performance to remember. Okay to give a
performance something that they will not forget in a long long time. Okay.
So there are 14 particular collocations with that very simple verb to give then be given to you one
more time. Give it some thought. Give an example. Give somebody a call. Give a hand. Give a speech.
Give notice either in writing or verbally, give notice. Give an opinion. To give an answer.
Give evidence in a crime scene. Give priority to somebody or something.
Give information. Give a description. And then the finally, to give credit and give a performance.
Okay, so 14 particular collocations, advanced collocations relating to that verb give.
And as always, you know the drill by now, practice these,
pick out some that you think you can use, perhaps one or two that you're not so comfortable with.
See whether you can use them if you need some more examples. Come back to me. Always very,
very happy when you join us. Delighted that you can watch and you can learn and we can help you.
As always, this is Harry saying goodbye until next time, join me again soon.